PinnedJherineGentlemen Prefer Blondes: White Women and Unearned Beauty“I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that…Jul 11, 202027Jul 11, 202027
Jherine“Secrets I Have Kept From You”I. There was a watch. Black leather band, cracked and worn and fraying. at the buckle. The face was bruised and the minute hand shuddered…Feb 16, 2022Feb 16, 2022
JherineBlessed Are the MeekI have been conditioned to have infinite capacity for hope. I was raised Protestant and had a predisposition to an inflated sense of…Jan 5, 2021Jan 5, 2021
JherineGrief EatingOnce, when I was very young, my grandmother told me a story about a group of women called “grief eaters.” These women were always of an…Aug 30, 2020Aug 30, 2020
JherineThe MinstrelWhat is a minstrel? When I google blackface (which I did prior to writing this and only scrolled down half the page before almost losing…Feb 4, 2019Feb 4, 2019